Wisconsin Indian place legends
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This publication was prepared by the Wisconsin Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. The Writers' Project in each state provided work for unemployed researchers, writers, and editors during the Great Depression of the 1930s. In Wisconsin, it was initially headed by Charles E. Brown (1872-1946), an archaeologist and anthropologist. Brown selected 27 tales about Wisconsin landscape features that had appeared in printed sources about Native American culture or that W.P.A. fieldworkers collected orally (no specific sources are provided here). Only about 200 copies of this booklet were made. They were printed by mimeograph, bound by W.P.A. workers in the Milwaukee Handicraft Project, and distributed to public libraries.
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Federal Writers’ Project, Wis. Folklore Section
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
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- Rare Book Collection
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- Works Progress Administration, Wisconsin
- Location
- Madison, Wis.
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- text
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- English
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- Federal Writers’ Project, Wis. Folklore Section. Wisconsin Indian place legends. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/70276. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- Federal Writers’ Project, Wis. Folklore Section, Wisconsin Indian place legends. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/70276
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- Federal Writers’ Project, Wis. Folklore Section. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/70276>.